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INTRODUCTION
This book consists of sixteen brief essays that primarily deal with the
issues of the New Revelation. The major concepts, ideas and the
understanding of the New Revelation are directly and indirectly
discussed and explained. Each essay can be conceived of and read as a
basically independent issue despite the fact that there is a loose
interconnectedness among them. After all, they do deal with what is
called here the New Revelation. Because of this relative independence,
the reader can study various essays by simply picking any one of them at
random, that is, by picking the one which sounds the most interesting to
a reader or the title which triggers within the reader a strong desire to
read it first.
The content of these essays, very often, will be difficult to accept at
face value by some or even many readers. First of all, how many people
in this world, nowadays, are interested in anything that deals with such
a non-tangible issue as spiritual ideas and concepts related to something
which is called the New Revelation? For many people, by their own
definition, this is too impractical and useless from the standpoint of their
daily, earthly endeavors. Secondly, even if one could find a considerable
number of people who are interested in these issues, how many among
them would be willing to accept that such a thing as a New Revelation is
possible in the age of modern science and high technology?
Would it not be considered the ravings of a madman, at worst, or the
wild fantasy and rich imagination of the writer, at best, rather than a
revelation that comes directly from the Most High? Is it not true that
knowledge about anything should be acquired by objective observation:
the accumulation, classification, verification, scrutiny and cautious
generalization of perceptible facts or data, using the well-defined
procedures and tools prescribed by certain expected standards of a
scientific mind; and not by some kind of obscure revelation that
seemingly comes out of nowhere without any possibility of immediate,
objective verification?
On the other hand, even though many people accept the fact that one
of the important means of acquiring knowledge and understanding of
truth is by a direct revelation from the Most High, they have difficulty
accepting the fact that such a revelation can be granted in modern times.
Many people believe that all needed revelations were granted to
humankind once and for all at a certain time in the past and recorded in
the so-called Holy Scriptures. They believe these Scriptures cannot be
altered, modified, added to, built on, and that their validity has an
absolute value that can never change.
Moreover, some people believe that such revelations can relate only to
so-called religious matters and have no relevance to anything else or to
any other aspects of everyday life.
These and similar views give one an impression that the Most High is
no longer functionally in direct communication with people, but that
He/She stated His/Her case and gave the license for discovery of truth
either to science, or to the Holy Scriptures, or both, leaving everything up
to them in deciding the meaning and content of the real truth. Many
people even go so far as to proclaim that there is no God, the Most High,
the Creator, and that everything is explainable and derivable from the
natural laws that established themselves by themselves as a matter of
chance or accident. For people like this, the content of this book will be
the result of the ravings of a madman.
Whatever the case may be, for modern people it is not easy to believe
or to accept that, at the present time, anything like the New Revelation
is possible. Does it really mean that God, who is called here the Most
High, tells someone or dictates to someone certain ideas, concepts and
thoughts that constitute the New Revelation? Is it not true that such a
claim can only come from a person who suffers from delusions of
grandeur or megalomaniac paranoia, as psychiatrists and clinical
psychologists would diagnose or label such a person? Or, perhaps for
those who believe in spirits, is it not the result of being misled or
deceived by some evil or negative spirit, or entity that claims to be the
Most High; or a multiple personality of a sick mind that makes such
claims; or simply a sophisticated imagination of the author who wants,
by all means, to get people's attention for his own neurotic needs?
On the other hand, why do people need a New Revelation? Don't they
have enough of all kinds of books that tell them about the truth and how
to live their lives?
The essays, contained in these and other books by the author, give
answers to these and similar questions.
But the problem with such answers is that people either accept them
as true and sensible, or they reject them as meaningless or misleading.
So, one comes to the discovery of one of the major tenets of the New
Revelation: it is up to everyone's freedom of choice to accept this as a true
New Revelation of the Most High or to consider it to be the ravings of a
madman, a wild fantasy, the imagination of the author, or whatever one
wants to call it.
To be precise, these essays are not written for the purpose of trying to
force people to accept them as a true revelation from the Most High or as
part of that revelation. No such efforts are made by the author. They are
written only for everyone's consideration.
Whoever is interested in deep spiritual issues and keeps his/her mind
open and broad, will study them, consider them, meditate on them and
subsequently will decide, from within himself/herself, whether what is
presented here is really a part of the New Revelation or an intricate and
interesting spiritual theory with which one may or may not agree, or a
consequence of the author's wild imagination, or the ravings of a
mentally ill mind. The tools and procedures for verification of any such
claims are contained in the New Revelation and everyone is urged to
apply those tools.
Whatever the conclusion that any prospective reader will arrive at in
this respect, will be his/her personal, free conclusions and choices. The
reader will be fully responsible for them and for any consequences of
such conclusions.
It is a God-given gift and privilege, given to everyone, to be able to
make decisions about all matters of life by his/her free choice and by
his/her own free will and to bear the consequences of any decision.
If any one essay in this book is able to trigger a positive reaction in
the reader that will lead him/her toward becoming a better human being,
a more spiritual human being, and a more loving and wise human being,
one cannot desire or expect more, and the purpose for which this and any
other previous books by this author were written, will be fulfilled.
Dr. Peter Daniel Francuch,
Santa Barbara, California
January, 1985
Source: MAJOR IDEAS OF THE NEW REVELATION
